An active volunteer for more than 30 years, Doug Zuckerman is a past IEEE Division III (Communications Technology) Director, was 2008-2009 President of the IEEE Communications Society, and previously held leadership positions in conferences, publications and membership development. He received his B.S., M.S. and Eng.Sc.D degrees from Columbia University, USA, and is an IEEE Life Fellow. His professional experience, mainly at Bell Labs and Telcordia Technologies, USA, spans the operations, management and engineering of emerging communications technologies, networks and applications. His work heavily influenced early standards for management of telecommunications networks. Presently semi-retired, he is still active in standards as a representative to the Optical Internetworking Forum. Much of his professional life has been dedicated to IEEE activities. His service resulted in the following honors: IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Communications Society’s McLellan Award for meritorious service, its Conference Achievement Award, and the Salah Aidarous Memorial Award.

IEEE Accomplishments and Activities

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Doug’s constructive leadership across IEEE has responded to members, worldwide, through active service on key organizations across IEEE. He was on the IEEE Board of Directors, chaired the IEEE Employee Benefits and Compensation Committee, led the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative’s conference activities, and was on the IEEE Corporate Engagement and Career & Professional Development Committees.

As ComSoc President, he established a strategic vision and with ComSoc’s leadership:

Changes in industry structure and the world economy, together with "open access" to information, present major challenges and opportunities. The IEEE responds with the value generated by our member-based technical Societies and Councils. As VP-TA, I will advocate greater recognition, structurally and financially, of our unique role as IEEE’s primary intellectual property source. As TAB chair, I will call on my 30 years of IEEE experience and proven skills to lead TAB in defining and achieving our goals, addressing the needs of all our Societies/Councils. Important areas include:

Marina Ruggieri is Full Professor in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Roma “Tor Vergata” (Italy) and therein member of the Board of Directors. She is Steering Board Chair of CTIF, an Interdisciplinary Research Center on ICT that belongs to an international network with nodes in Europe, Asia and USA.

She is arbitrator of the Italian Industries Federation for Aerospace, Defence and Security; member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Center for Aeronautical Military Studies; Principal Investigator of the 40/50 GHz Communications Experiment on-board the Alphasat satellite, launched in 2013, and Vice President of the AFCEA Rome Chapter.

She was with ITT as a microwave circuit designer.

She received: 1990 Piero Fanti International Prize; 2009 Pisa Donna Award as women in engineering; 2013 Excellent Women in Roma Award; Excellent and Best Paper Awards at international conferences.

As Division IX Director I proposed a common technical activity for Quality of Life among the Division’s seven Societies. In this frame Division IX has started a Research Group on “Synthesizing Environmental Information” within IEEE CollabratecTM pilot version.

As Division IX Director I proposed an activity at DDF- level to improve the role of the Division Director in the technical and strategic life of the Societies.

As AESS President I led the Society to new Constitution & Bylaws, the first written Strategic Plan, a new logo, new initiatives in Education and Technical Operations and for Young Professionals, Transactions in electronic format.

As member of the TAB Strategic Planning Committee and BoD strategic activities I have been and I am involved in vision and innovation at TAB and IEEE levels.

Statement

One of my deepest dreams is to make technology the most effective enabler for the Quality of Life for Human Beings.

The Technical Activities Board (TAB) is the natural place to be for a dreaming engineer.

TAB is the natural place for pushing technology towards the most effective usefulness for the needs of worldwide citizens.

TAB is the vibrating core of IEEE.

I would like to consolidate the relationship between TAB and all IEEE Societies; to improve their participation and contribution to TAB activities; to increase their awareness of TAB potential and perspectives; to make them feel TAB is the place where they can find a positive energy for conceiving ideas, developing projects, shaping strategies and paving the way to everlasting standards.

I would like to make interdisciplinarity be the keyword of IEEE for the next decades through an extensive and challenging effort at the TAB level.

I would like to strengthen the cooperation between TAB and the other IEEE units.

I would like to make TAB the key contributor to a timely technological awareness of IEEE and, hence, to a dynamic, strong and lasting impact of IEEE in “Advancing Technology for Humanity.”